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Laupersdorf commune (Solothurn canton, Switzerland)

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Thal district
Solothurn canton
Switzerland

Laupersdorf

image by Pascal Gross

Gules, a Number 8 argent.
Željko Heimer, 1 November 2002

The figure 8 in the emblem has a military background: According to a source from 1689, the Thal district communes were assigned to the Fourth and Fifth Company of the Second Regiment of Solothurn's militia army. The figure 4 at that time was written like an 8 open at the bottom; the figure 5 resembled an angle. The most emblems of the Thal district show either derivations of the figure 4 (Balsthal, Laupersdorf) or 5 (Aedermannsdorf, Herbetswil, Matzendorf, Welschenrohr).
Martin Karner